So, now's your chance to head over to regulations.gov and tell the TSA how much you hate them, how much you hate the scanners, how much you hate the pat-downs, that they should get rid of both the utterly useless scanners and pointlessly invasive pat-downs, and to ask any questions you have about the scanners, pat-downs, or anything else. Here's the link:

There, you can read the TSA's (crappy) justification for the scanners and, more importantly, share your feelings with them via the "comment now" button.

As a federal government employee, I know how these public comments work. You're not screaming into the void with these public comments - the government (or, more likely, a government contractor) will read every single comment submitted, and then the government (this time, likely an actual TSA employee) will have to answer every single comment/question individually.

If you submit a form letter, your comment will be grouped with like comments/questions and answered collectively, so I highly recommend writing a unique comment so that the TSA will have to address your comment directly.

At the time of this writing, there are only 1,647 comments posted - a recent rule from my agency got over a quarter-million comments (though many of those were form letters), so there's serious work to be done, people!

Head over to regulations.gov and let the TSA feel the hate! (And do it before June 24, 2013 - the commenting period closes on that date.)

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I am one of the largely nameless, faceless bureaucrats who work tirelessly (and largely thanklessly) to help ensure that poor people don't go hungry - and a billion other tasks government bureaucrats do that no one notices until something stops working. Living and working in DC is making me angry - and I vent my anger as thoughtfully as I can. Well, OK, maybe I'm not terribly angry ... but I thought it was a good name for a blog. If you're also a bureaucrat, or angry, or thoughtful, I'm happy to entertain guest posts.